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I dont know much about creative writing programs. But theyre not t

I dont know much about creative writing programs. But theyre not telling the truth if they dont teach, one, that writing is hard work, and, two, that you have to give up a great deal of life, your personal life, to be a writer. – Doris Lessing

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It is terrible to destroy a persons picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction. – Doris Lessing

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There was a time when young people respected learning and literature and now they dont. – Doris Lessing

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